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Lone Oaks Farm is all about the land. With 1,200 acres of pastures, woodlands, meadows, wetlands, streams and lakes, this is a place like no other. It epitomizes rural Tennessee’s natural beauty and exemplifies its fragile and diverse ecological landscape. Through the seamless integration of architecture, landscape architecture, agriculture and ecology, this ambitious [...]

At first glance, Main Street in Midtown Kansas City might seem a deliriously illegible place. We believe it has all the building blocks of a great urban community, which affirms the complexities, harmonies and contradictions of life in the city. In the span of a few blocks on Main Street, you can find payday loans, [...]

Guest blog post by Eldo Prize winner #2 (EP2), Emily Lange, a fifth-year student at the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design. When I heard that I won the Eldo Prize last spring, it was a no-brainer that I would be moving from Knoxville to Kansas City for the summer. I had never [...]

In mid-July, the KSU Design+Make Studio completed its single largest and most comprehensive project, The Waldo Duplex, which extends the legacy of design-build projects at Kansas State University. The duplex is located in the heart of the Waldo neighborhood at 7509 Pennsylvania Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The project bridges the Design+Make Studio’s rigorous investigation [...]